Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
EDMUND BURKENothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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